Marcelo Longobardi once again targeted Javier Milei and his cabinet in a recent video in which he displayed one of his most severe criticisms of the ruling party. The journalist described the Government with a phrase that ignited controversy: “There were some indications that could suggest that in a government as strange as that of President Milei anything could happen. Within that notion, anything like this: a government composed of a group of lunatics, with an older lunatic; a group of radicalized, intolerant fanatics, who ended up looking very similar to those they came to evict: the caste.”
From that point, Longobardi extended his criticism towards journalism that he considers aligned with the ruling party. He pointed out that the media climate favors the Government’s narrative and questioned the tone of certain programs: “Last night I heard on these television programs so oriented towards the ruling party,” he said, while showing Luis Majul on the screen, “that there was a conspiracy of public employees here.”
In his message, he went further and grouped several well-known prime time figures under the same label. According to Longobardi, Esteban Trebucq, Eduardo Feinmann, Jonatan Viale and Luis Majul make up a kind of “new 678”, in direct allusion to the Kirchnerist program that functioned for years as a political defense power plant. For the journalist, this set of voices fulfills an equivalent role today in relation to the libertarian government.
The video was published weeks ago and circulated strongly on news networks and platforms, fueling the already open confrontation between Longobardi and sectors of the ruling party, and reactivating the discussion about the role of the media in the Milei stage.
